Book jacket of Elena Creef's book Imaging Japanese America: The Visual Construction of Citizenship, Nation, and the Body

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Contact Information

Svati Shah
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
Telephone: 2920
Office Hours: Tues, 11:30-1:30 and by Appointment

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Biography

Dr. Svati Shah is an Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her doctorate focused on migration, sex work, and the informal sector in the city of Mumbai. Her work is published in a number of peer-reviewed and progressive journals, including Gender and History, Cultural Dynamics, and SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection. In addition to her research, Dr. Shah has been a part of secularist, LGBT rights, and feminist movements in the United States and in India. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Anthropology and Public Health and her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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